Malaria, Collapsing Glomerulopathy, and Focal and Segmental Glomerulosclerosis.

ABSTRACT:

Background and objectives

Malaria, a potentially life-threatening disease, is the most prevalent endemic infectious disease worldwide. In the modern era, the spectrum of glomerular involvement observed in patients after malarial infections remains poorly described.

Design, setting, participants, & measurements

We therefore performed a retrospective multicenter study to assess the clinical, biologic, pathologic, and therapeutic characteristics of patients with glomerular disease demonstrated by kidney biopsy in France within 3 months of an acute malaria episode.

Results

We identified 23 patients (12 men), all but 1 of African ancestry and including 10 patients with concomitant HIV infection. All of the imported cases were in French citizens living in France who had rec

SUBMITTER: Amoura A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7341769 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature